The annual event highlights a variety of Asian works at galleries, museums, and art institutions.

The Asian art market has shown signs of growth amid a weaker global market.

The moon jar was part of a single-lot sale that tapped the popularity of these ceramics.

"The attack and the damage, beyond the physical, was in part symbolic. It was targeted," said the museum director.

The broad title of the MFA’s spring headliner belies the exhibition’s narrow focus. Far from a sweeping survey of art from and about Asia’s vast urban agglomerations, the show features work by just un…